Thank you, Don, for putting this into perspective. Good question about web-based application development... I would like to see one that allowed migration from an existing DP application. Will keep looking and thinking about this... Thanks again, and best wishes, Bruce
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Don Friedman <[email protected]> wrote: > Bruce - excellent stuff. I remain truly surprised that the need for simple > database application generators never really took hold. It seemed to me > that Q&A had a smart idea, a word processor with a database that could > easily create data-driven reports and correspondence. There were a handful > of other of these products out there and I suspect that at one time Lew > thought DP would be a part of DataPerfect per se. It's not that DP failed > on it's own to capture a market, the entire product category failed to > capture a market. Do you think a web-based application development tool > could do much better? > > > > > *Don FriedmanProfessionalRecords.Com LLCPRS Data Systems* > > > > *205 S Main StreetPittsburgh, PA 15215412-784-1600 <412-784-1600> - > 1-800-PRS-FILE 412-784-1615 <412-784-1615> Fax* > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 6:02 PM, Bruce Conrad <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Our recent discussion about running DP on modern machines has set me >> thinking (again--over the years I have thought about this often). >> >> It is wonderful that we can still run DP and I am grateful to those who >> have made it possible through virtual machines. >> >> If anyone can think of an easy way to "port" DP to a more modern machine, >> I would love to be involved. Every idea that has occurred to me for doing >> this has so far turned out to be too difficult. Each time I have thought of >> how to automatically migrate existing DP applications to the more modern >> system. >> >> A modern DP would probably not be simply a "windows" version, but rather >> a rapid application development system for data-based browser applications. >> With over a decade of experience building web applications--in languages >> such as Perl, C, bash, Java, and JSP--I know how challenging this can be, >> and how definitely requiring skill as a programmer. >> >> For the first time, last week, I thought about the reverse process. That >> is, given a web application, what would it look like as a DP application. A >> couple of thoughts about this can be found at >> http://sanbachs.net/ha-then-now/index20150821.html and >> http://sanbachs.net/ha-then-now/ both based on (part of) a real web >> application. >> >> I just finished a brief nostalgic post about my experiences with >> DataPerfect, which includes a brief list of its features. If I have left >> out anything you particularly appreciate about DP, please comment about >> them. The post is at >> http://conwithoutcon.blogspot.com/2015/08/continuation-without-compulsion.html >> >> Many thanks and best wishes, >> Bruce >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Dataperf mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.dataperfect.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dataperf >> >> >
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